[spectre] New OA book from OHP: Ways of Following: Art, Materiality, Collaboration by Katve-Kaisa Kontturi

[Gary Hall]

Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the new book in its 
Immediations series: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi's Ways of Following: Art, 
Materiality, Collaboration.

Available for free download at: 
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ways-of-following/

In Ways of Following, Katve-Kaisa Kontturi offers rare, intimate access 
to artists’ studios and exhibitions, where art processes thrive in their 
material-relational becoming. The book argues for an ethical and 
affirmative mode of engaging with contemporary art that replaces 
critical distance with sensuous and transformative proximity. From 
writing-with to dancing and breathing, from conversations to modelling, 
it maps ways of following that make the moving materiality of art 
intensively felt. Drawing on long-term engagements with selected 
contemporary artists and their art-in-process, Kontturi expands the 
concept and practice of collaboration from human interactions to working 
with, and between, materials. With this shift, Ways of Following 
radically rethinks such core tenets of art theory as intention, artistic 
influences and the autonomy of art, bringing new urgency to the work of 
art and its political capacity to propose new ways of being and thinking.

Best, Gary

-- 
Gary Hall, http://www.garyhall.info
Professor of Media, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org

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